New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.

Newport News Homesteads, Housing Project for Negroes. Virginia.

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914-1975)

CultureAmerican

Date1937

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (16.8 × 23.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (20.2 × 25.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund

Object number84.78.24

Not on view

DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

Label TextJohn Vachon American, 1914–1975 Newport News Homesteads, Housing Project for Negroes. Virginia, October 1937 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 The housing crunch hit black communities especially hard due to segregation and economic inequality. The first homestead community in the United States for African Americans was constructed under the New Deal. In 1934, the Division of Subsistence Housing awarded a $245,000 federal grant to Hampton Institute, which started designing and constructing the 440-acre community called Aberdeen Gardens. Chrysler Museum purchase 84.78.24 ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Mountaineers To Main Streets: The Old Dominion as Seen Through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1985, 45.